locking/barriers: Convert users of lockless_dereference() to READ_ONCE()

[ Note, this is a Git cherry-pick of the following commit:

    506458efaf ("locking/barriers: Convert users of lockless_dereference() to READ_ONCE()")

  ... for easier x86 PTI code testing and back-porting. ]

READ_ONCE() now has an implicit smp_read_barrier_depends() call, so it
can be used instead of lockless_dereference() without any change in
semantics.

Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1508840570-22169-4-git-send-email-will.deacon@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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2017-10-24 11:22:48 +01:00
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@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ static void finalize_ldt_struct(struct ldt_struct *ldt)
static void install_ldt(struct mm_struct *current_mm,
struct ldt_struct *ldt)
{
/* Synchronizes with lockless_dereference in load_mm_ldt. */
/* Synchronizes with READ_ONCE in load_mm_ldt. */
smp_store_release(&current_mm->context.ldt, ldt);
/* Activate the LDT for all CPUs using current_mm. */